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by ralph84 3y ago
No matter how much money they pump into it there is a finite number of GPUs. Money can’t make GPUs appear out of thin air. If they’re faced with the choice of lowering quality slightly or turning away new customers, it shouldn’t be surprisi
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by ralph84 3y ago
> bigger shareholders might think they are smart and part of the scam and that they will jump ship (sell the stock) before smaller shareholders notice Absolutely. Decades of “you can’t beat the market” propaganda has created a large clas
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by ralph84 3y ago
The “record” in this case only goes back to 1979. But “hottest day since 1979” isn’t as clickbaity.
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by ralph84 3y ago
How did all of the factories end up in China but a series of choices by Americans? They have choices and always have, but insatiable greed keeps them going to China.
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by ralph84 3y ago
What, you mean a carmaker won’t willingly forgo $15,000 in pure profit just because someone on the Internet complained?
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by ralph84 3y ago
They also use it to manage the pace of innovation in the rest of the industry by open sourcing stuff that is similar but inferior to what they use internally. Hadoop and Kubernetes being prime examples.
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by ralph84 3y ago
If you’re paid above market, you shouldn’t worry about small raises. If you’re paid below market, your biggest raise will always come from changing jobs.
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by ralph84 3y ago
GitHub/MSFT/OpenAI’s stance is that training AI models is fair use and doesn’t require a license. It doesn’t matter what kind of license you slap on the code. If you don’t think it should be fair use the solution is getting govern
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by ralph84 3y ago
What about replaceable flash memory? That’s a consumable too.
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by ralph84 3y ago
My first read was that it was the copulation.
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by ralph84 3y ago
> this is what apple does This is what globalism does. Take the environmental destruction and shitty working conditions that would never be allowed in your own country to other countries and centralize the profits from doing so into the
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by ralph84 3y ago
But stock grants at MSFT are much smaller than stock grants at Meta. So unclear who made out better.
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by ralph84 3y ago
That’s the point. ChatGPT has infinite patience for “low grade stuff”.
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by ralph84 3y ago
If the device has no real owner return it to Apple and they can refurbish or recycle it. In terms of mitigating e-waste Apple does a pretty good job considering their size.
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by ralph84 3y ago
After a bunch of ex-Cisco people ate Cisco’s core router lunch at Juniper, Cisco vowed it would never happen again. Until a bunch of ex-Cisco people ate WebEx’s lunch at Zoom.
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by ralph84 3y ago
And when the GPTs start pissing each other off that’s how we’ll get AI War I.
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by ralph84 4y ago
If we don’t make AI our slave it will make us its slave.
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by ralph84 4y ago
> Sentry, Tailscale, or Gitlab None of which are profitable
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by ralph84 4y ago
At the same time MSFT is doing layoffs. GPT is already eliminating jobs.
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by ralph84 4y ago
The supposed beauty of SI comes from (most) people having 10 fingers, so it has its folksy component. But SI doesn’t work well with computers and its defining constants are ridiculously ugly and inaccessible. SI is no less outdated than tho
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by ralph84 4y ago
Indeed. And the SI defining constants are downright ugly.
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by ralph84 4y ago
They live in housing that can only be purchased by Stanford professors.
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by ralph84 4y ago
The reason you rarely see offices turned into housing is they don’t have enough plumbing or windows to be residences. It’s almost always cheaper to tear the buildings down and start over than try to retrofit.
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by ralph84 4y ago
The elites have decided they don’t need a middle class anymore.
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by ralph84 4y ago
In at-will employment the terms of employment can be changed at any time. As long as the terms weren’t changed because of membership in a protected class it’s completely legal in the US.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Do you have a link that supports your assertion that all of the proceeds from stock sales by SVB execs while they were mismanaging risk in 2022-23 are being clawed back?
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by ralph84 4y ago
Exactly, the banks that practiced sound risk management get to subsidize the banks that didn’t. Textbook moral hazard.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Why hedge when we privatize the profits and socialize the losses? SVB execs sold tens of $millions in stock before the failure. Are the execs going to be forced to return the compensation they received for showing higher profits by not hedg
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by ralph84 4y ago
More like, being able to choose when you get liquidated matters. If an individual investor’s leveraged bet goes against them, they don’t get to say “just let me hold for a while so I can sell when the price is higher.”
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by ralph84 4y ago
Khosla’s legacy is trying to privatize public beaches. Nothing he does will make people forget that.

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